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The Biden admin had a "plan in place" for the ICJ ruling. Their plan was to say "that's what we were asking Israel to do all along, but uh, we of course couldn't force them to do anything." Bad sign when you have to have a plan in place for when the ICJ implicates you in a genoci...

By a 14-2 vote the ICJ has decided that the official position is that the US is arming and funding a genocide. Anyway, Greg Abbott declared himself president and 24 governors sent a letter agreeing that he's the president. If Joe Biden doesn't have Abbott in a jail cell in D.C. in under 48 hours I w...

Piercing Throw: You throw things really hard. +1: You can use Strength instead of Dexterity for the attack bonus of your thrown weapons. +6: When you make a thrown attack against an enemy, it acts as a Line Attack for the first 30ft, piercing any enemies and attacking any enemies in the line with th...

It's been a few months since the retail alliance admitted that 100% of their shoplifting claims were false so now its time for NY governor who keeps cutting public defender funding to roll out a 40 billion dollar initiative to pay cops to loiter in stores and assault black people for shopping.

Democrats voter overwhelmingly that they love when Israel does war crimes, 72-11 vote against even investigating their war crimes. The 11 who shouldn't be drummed out of their job (well still drum Paul out of his job, but not for this vote): Butler (D-CA) Heinrich (D-NM) Hirono (D-HI) Lujan (D-NM) M...

Things the Biden admin is doing to help Israel (new, not like, giving them more bombs against the will of congress for the 12th time): 1) Going back to war with Yemen because the Yemeni government is shutting down Israel's trade through the Red Sea. 2) Literally providing them with targetting suppor...

That would be nice. Sucks about both those things, but better then some of the worst case scenarios I was imagining in my head.

Edit: Correction: Tony Blair's spokeperson is saying he does not have anything to do with the lobbying for countries to take relocated Palestinians.

Israel killed 40% more people per day after the pause then before to make up for lost time. They are now openly saying the always obvious fact that they are doing this to ethnically cleanse palestinians not because of any imaginary hunt for Hamas that the US media and politicians pretend is at play....

Since Rad is harrassing me and saying these were feats invented for me, I am pointing out that no feat should ever add 400 spells known. Do not write a feat that adds all spells of a specific school as spells known or to the class list. Or even to a spellbook because that's really bad dumpster divin...

The IDF shot 3 hostages who were holding a white flag, they said they thought they were Hamas but that is obviously a poor reason to shoot 3 people under a white flag. Not that we needed more evidence of it, but Israel doesn't care about the hostages. Or the rules of war. Or Palestinian people. Or ...

I enjoyed reading an argument from two Jews on bluesky, one a reporter who investigated all the claims of antisemitism at various colleges and found no evidence of any of the claims and the other some random dude who explained that he called his IDF friend to ask him what words mean. They were argui...

Joe biden proposing a compromise with the gop where Joe biden will personally strangle every immigrant child in the country to death with his own hands as long as they agree to give more bombs to Israel to complete the genocide (and also some more weapons to ukraine.) Jokes on the gop. Even if they ...

At the white house Hanukkah celebration Joe Biden announced his plan to final solution all the Jews in America apparently?

He announced no Jew in America is safe and they are only safe in Israel.

Anyway love to fight anti semitism by being super fucking anti semitic.

The Biden admin did that thing where they beg congress to do something because only congress can do it, then congress votes it down, then they just declare a state of emergency and do the thing congress voted down because it turns out the president is a dictator who can do whatever he wants as long ...

2) Have you ever played a 3.5 Cleric or Wizard? It doesn't actually matter if you think upcasting is a good mechanic, it is not a thing that 3.5 Wizards or Clerics can DO. They literally can't. Are you now saying someone should rewrite the entire Wizard and Cleric class in addition to the entire sk...

1) It's very interesting in that your big speech about how the skill system is great and I'm dumb for wanting people to succeed on all D20 rolls you eventually just came around to "Yeah it's actually fine for there to be 12 different ways to get past a door and ignore the skill system" whi...

I'm a bit confused by the response, we are firmly in homebrew territory -- so point 1 seems moot to me. point 2 is nearly moot -- some efforts can be made to improve the skill system. If you're stuck with all the legacy 3.5 bullshit then maybe not, but you could start by just excising all the spell...

Divination certainly needs a holistic makeover. I noticed you didn't post any revisions of non-detection / mindblank? Well by specifying how every divination works with Mindblank, including Divination and Scrying, I was effectively revising Mindblank. the first spell is for me underwhelming powerwi...

In worse news, the israeli ceasefire ended how everyone expected, with Israel (having already attacked gaza multiple times during the ceasefire, having attacked the west bank the entire time, having locked up more palestianians then they released from cages in exchanges) by Israel saying evil Hamas ...

Great news everyone, the evil vile Supreme Court Hacks ruled against the Biden DOJ on the question of whether disabled people should have rights. Turns out, Samuel Alito is to the left of Merrick Garland on disability rights. It was a 9-0 decision against the hotels trying to gut the ACA (and agains...

Wow, thanks for providing an example of scrying spells that D&D already has and already work fine as I said during the initial post and zero examples of the kinds of spells that I was saying I wanted to have but that D&D had bad or no version of. That definitely proved that the system you c...

Whew, that sure was hard! Maybe stop playing shitty systems that don't do what you want and use a system that has already solved your problems instead. I dunno why but I find it so strange that people don't seem to care about how much more vaguely defined the magic is in other RPGs. Your scrying sp...

Wow, thanks for providing an example of scrying spells that D&D already has and already work fine as I said during the initial post and zero examples of the kinds of spells that I was saying I wanted to have but that D&D had bad or no version of. That definitely proved that the system you co...

I mean the Cuomo judges who struck down the NY state legislature map costing the Democrats the house in 2022 is NY state politics, and then various state party officials making bad running decisions, but I don't think Santos getting kicked out of the house is really related to that It's mostly just ...